On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 18:47 +0100, Mathieu Jourdan wrote: > > - my girlfriend took briefly a look on it, she said those colours were > for males.
I'm no authority on this list, but I'd appreciate it if the freedombox initiative would use actual research for things like choosing gender-neutral design elements whenever possible. Most actual, empirical research on gender differences runs against gender stereotypes and finds mostly similarity, not differences, between genders. Further, the gendered context of design elements will change drastically between cultures. As such, our intuitive judgments as individuals will not be the best indicator of the actual gender-neutrality of design elements. I can devote some of my copious free time to doing some of the scholarship necessary for this (and I can act as a proxy to retrieve paywalled papers for anyone who asks). I will need guidance and specific questions, rather than general ones.
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